Co-opoly: The Game of Co-operatives

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Co-opoly is a game of skill and solidarity, where everyone wins - or everyone loses! As featured in The Guardian and on PBS.

All players are on the same team and work together to start a cooperative business or organization and compete against the Point Bank

Learn and practice skills needed to run a cooperative

Make tough choices and put your teamwork to the test

Designed for families and friends who want to play together instead of competing against each other, and groups thinking about starting a cooperative or improving skills as collaborators.

Co-opoly is for 3 - 6 Players, Ages 10 and up, and it takes sixty minutes to play. Co-opoly is also ethically produced - it is colorfully printed completely by other worker co-ops, entirely in the USA, and on recycled and sustainable materials.

Please note: An old version of Co-opoly is featured in this video from 2012. The art and layout have been updated since!

We also have several other resources and products to extend your Co-opoly experience. Those include:

Testimonials & Accolades for Co-opoly

As quoted in The Guardian:

'And what did the teams playing Co-opoly think of it?

Nisha who had been playing with her two young boys, Ishan 8 and Ravi 11, was full of praise: "My two boys are normally very competitive all the time but the game made them listen to each other and work things out together," says Nisha. "It wasn't about winning individually it was about everyone winning, something that I think was really good for them to learn."

Ishan was equally keen: "It helps you understand that everything doesn't have to be about winning or losing, it's about working together."

Rachel and Nick and their three children aged 12, 11 and 9 also gave it the thumbs up: "We're all Monopoly nuts but still found the game to be really enjoyable and fun" says Rachel who happens to be on the management team of Busy Bee Toys, the UK's first community-owned co-op toy shop in Manchester. "It's great to play a game which has a collective aim."'

As quoted in The Valley Advocate:

"With a high level of accuracy and entertainment value, the game had simulated a real-world situation convincingly. Our careless, high-risk approach to running the co-op had resulted in its early demise. We ended the game earlier than we had expected. We felt defeated, but not willing to quit. We wanted another chance.

Unanimously, we decided that next game night, we’d give Co-opoly our undivided attention. It almost whipped us twice, but I’m glad to say our second co-op prospered and we’re looking forward to trying again."

"As both a co-operator and a long-time player and collector of board games, Co-opoly is a dream come true. Educational games have a tendency to be long on learning and short on playability, but Co-opoly is a wonderful exception, combining the real-life challenges and opportunities co-ops face with solid game play. The Work cards, which require you to draw, act out a charade or describe a specific word or phrase, give Co-opoly a party game feel, while the roll-and-move mechanics make the game easy for players at all skill levels to learn. Like co-ops themselves, Co-opoly combines principle and practice: an appropriate initiative for the International Year of Co-operatives and beyond."

Family Review Center:

"Move over Monopoly... [Co-opoly] is based on real life issues and principles and has a lot of educational value not found in most games. The education portion is subtly in play thru the entire game, as players learn how to best make a co-op setting work for them and their community. Check this one out! GREAT FUN is awaiting you!"

Alex Liotta, an engineering student:

Co-opoly is the most fun I've had playing a board game in a very long time... Why aren't more board games cooperative?

Graphic design for the 2017 version of Co-opoly by Evan Rowland, based on the original design by Molly McLeod.